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Steve Fisher has guided the San Diego State basketball program to unparalleled heights. In 11 seasons, he has taken a program that regularly missed out on the conference postseason tournament, to one which has become one of the best programs on the West Coast and in the Associated Press Top 25 preseason poll. The best news for San Diego State fans is that the school exercised its option on Fisher's contract prior to the 2009-10 campaign, which will keep the national championship coach in San Diego for the foreseeable future. When Fisher arrived on the scene in March of 1999, he found a basketball program that wasn't good enough to be called average. The Aztecs had suffered through 13 losing seasons in 14 years. Members of the school's last NCAA team were in the early stages of middle age. The expectations were set. The Aztecs were expected to lose. The year before Fisher's arrival on campus, San Diego State won just four games. Now those days are a distant memory. Fisher guided the Aztecs to the NCAA Tournament in 2002, 2006 and 2010, and the postseason NIT in 2003, 2007, 2008 and 2009, to go along with six 20-win seasons. In addition, San Diego State brings back a solid core of talented players, including all five starters and nine letterwinners, and a pair of players who utilized their redshirt seasons just a year ago. This group is certainly ready to turn heads.
